Is Terrorism a Useful Term in Understanding the Middle East and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict?

Radical History Review

Volumn 2003, Issue 85, 2003, Pages 12-23

  Beinin, Joel ^a  

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EID: 30744452404     PISSN: 01636545     EISSN: 15341453     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/01636545-2003-85-12     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Quoted in Benjamin Netanyahu, ed., Terrorism: How the West Can Win (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1986), 9.
2. Mahfoud Bennoune, The Making of Contemporary Algeria, 1830–1987 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), 41.
3. Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol. 4 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975), 810, and Gilbert, Companion to Volume IV, Part 2 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978), 1190; Charles Townshend, Britain’s Civil Wars: Counterinsurgency in the Twentieth Century (London: Faber and Faber, 1986), 98.
4. Amnesty International, Egypt: Violations of Human Rights (London: Amnesty International, 1983); Middle East Watch, Behind Closed Doors: Torture and Detention in Egypt (New York: Human Rights Watch, 1992); Eberhard Kienle, “More Than a Response to Islamism: The Political Deliberalization of Egypt in the 1990s,” Middle East Journal 52.2 (1998): 219–35.
5. Anita Shapira, Land and Power: The Zionist Resort to Force, 1881–1948 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), 176–77; Yehoshua Porath, a leading Israeli historian of this period, uses the same word to describe them in The Emergence of the Palestinian-Arab National Movement, 1918–1929 (London: Cass, 1974), 269.
6. Robert I. Friedman, Zealots for Zion: Inside Israel’s West Bank Settlement Movement (New York: Random House, 1992), 23–32.
7. Ian S. Lustick, For the Land and the Lord (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1988), 66.
8. Yehudit Karp, The Karp Report: Investigation of Suspicions against Israelis in Judea and Samaria (Jerusalem: Israeli Government, 1984).
9. Mikha’el Ben Horin, ed., Barukh ha-gever: Sefer zikaron la-kadosh Dr. Barukh Goldshtain H.y.d. (Jerusalem: Shalom ‘al Yisra’el, 5755 [1995]).
10. Quoted in Yehoshua Porath, The Palestinian Arab National Movement: From Riots to Rebellion, 1929–1939 (London: Cass, 1977), 269.
11. Tom Segev, One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate (New York: Metropolitan, 2000), 386.
12. Lenni Brenner, The Iron Wall: Zionist Revisionism from Jabotinsky to Shamir (London: Zed, 1984), 194–97.
13. Segev, One Palestine, Complete, 471–72.
14. Many of them are discussed in Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947–1949 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987). Morris has announced that a revised edition will contain evidence of even more massacres.
15. Menachem Begin, The Revolt (New York: Dell, 1977), 100–101.
16. Quoted in Nicholas Bethell, The Palestine Triangle: The Struggle between the British, the Jews, and the Arabs, 1935–48 (London: Deutsch, 1979), 277–78.
17. Associated Press dispatch, San Francisco Chronicle, September 5, 1991.
18. New York Times, February 14, 1980.
19. Benjamin Netanyahu, “Defining Terrorism,” in Netanyahu, Terrorism, 11–12.
20. The Beirut Massacre: The Complete Kahan Commission Report (New York: Karz-Cohl, 1983), 22.
21. The Beirut Massacre: The Complete Kahan Commission Report (New York: Karz-Cohl, 1983), 66–96, 104–5.
22. Thomas L. Friedman, From Beirut to Jerusalem (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1989), 164–65.
23. This contention can be verified by reference to the maps found at www.gush-shalom.org and www.fmep.org.
24. The quote is from an Agence France Presse dispatch, Jerusalem, September 30, 2000. For a summary of Sharon’s career with bibliographical references, see www.electronicintifada.net/forreference/keyfigures/sharon.html.
25. For a report of the events of September 29, 2000, see B’Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, Events on the Temple Mount—29 September 2000, available at www.btselem.org/English/Publications/Full_Text/ Temple_Mount_2000/Temple_Mount_2000_eng.asp.